Creating Pathways to Success

An Education and Career Life Planning Program for Ontario Students

Since September 2013, the Peel District School Board has used myBlueprint as the tool for students, grades 7 to 12, to reflect and document the components of the Ministry’s Education and Career/Life Planning program.

At all ages in the Career/Life Planning process, students discover their interests and skills and learn about opportunities in the world in which they live. Using the educational planning tool, myBlueprint.ca/peel, students in grades 7 and 8 will begin to create an Individual Pathways Plan (IPP) by setting goals, and exploring opportunities and programs that help them to make decisions. In grades 9 to 12, students continue to refine goals, further explore opportunities for post-secondary education, and create plans for their future in order to graduate in four years.

Parents/guardians are encouraged to support students in exploring courses and program offerings as a way to start Career/Life Planning. The framework of the Education and Career/Life Planning Program is a four-step inquiry process where students will continually explore, assess and reassess personally meaningful responses to the four key questions of Career/Life Planning below:

Who am I?

What are my interests and abilities?

What are my traits and values?

What am I passionate about and what inspires me?

What are my opportunities?

What high school courses, programs and extracurricular activities are available to me?

What education and training opportunities are available after high school (apprenticeship, college, university and the workplace)?